Thursday, March 5, 2015

Nathaniel West is a pen name for Nathan Weinstein, an award
winning novelist. He was in New York City at the same time as Dashiell Hammett
and they had a peculiar friendship. West extended credit to Hammett so that he
could use a room in the hotel that West was managing. Hammett tolerated West
but only saw him as a second rate Jew.

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